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Cut hair, perform surgery; barber pole symbol popularized
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Diocles was the first known writer of the first known anatomy book in the entire world
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Studied the nervous system
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Discovered the difference in between smallpox and measles.
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Wrote the Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
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He is considered one of the Father's of surgery. Also, people described him to be England's very first surgeon but for others the country's "of note."
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Leonardo da Vinci was the first person to dissect human corpses to study all the body has to offer for us and what everything does. Also, he was wanting to know how everything looked liked too.
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Discovered the 4th cranial nerve and and the function of the 1st pair of cranial nerves. He also has a published book called "Anatomical Notes By the Great Alexander Achillinus of Bologna."
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Publishes the findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani
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Invented the microscope
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4 of 24 were dominant at this time and point. These university's were in Montepellier, Paris, Toulouse, and Strasbourg. However, there were only 20 physicians in Russia all together so they made another school up there to help with the Russo-Polish War.
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The first successful appendectomy was performed by Claudius Aymand
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Is a Scottish naval surgeon, discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. He publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy in 1754, identifying the cure for this common and dangerous disease of sailors, although it takes another 40 years before an official Admiralty order dictates the supply of lemon juice to ships.
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Announces that anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide, even though dentists didn't use until 45 years later.
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Developed aspirin (acetyl salicylic acid). The juice from willow tree bark had been used as early as 400 BC to relieve pain. 19th century scientists knew that it was the salicylic acid in the willow that made it work, but it irritated the lining of the mouth and stomach. Hoffman synthesizes acetyl salicylic acid, developing what is now the most widely used medicine in the world.
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First account of virto fertilisation that was successfully done by Min Chueh Chang was in the 1900's.
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Thomas Starzl was the first surgeon to complete a human liver transplant.
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Ben Carson lead a 70 member team in Germany to separate craniopagus twins for the first time ever.
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Performed the first ever full face transplant
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Japan grew the first human liver from stem cells
